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Cheers!: Around the World in 80 Toasts
Salut! Prost! Skål! Na zdrave! Tagay!
No matter what country you clink glasses in, everyone has a word for cheers. In Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, Brandon Cook takes readers on a whirlwind trip through languages from Estonian to Elvish and everywhere in between. Need to know how to toast in Tagalog? Say "bottoms up" in Basque? "Down the hatch" in Hungarian? Cook teaches readers how to toast in 80 languages and includes drinking traditions, historical facts, and strange linguistic phenomena for each. Sweden, for instance, has a drinking song that taunts an uppity garden gnome, while Turkey brandishes words like Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınızcasına. And the most valuable liquor brand in the world isn't Johnny Walker or Hennessey, but Maotai—President Nixon's liquor of choice when he visited China.
Whether you're traveling the globe or the beer aisle, Cheers! will show you there's a world of fun waiting for you. So raise a glass and begin exploring!
No matter what country you clink glasses in, everyone has a word for cheers. In Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, Brandon Cook takes readers on a whirlwind trip through languages from Estonian to Elvish and everywhere in between. Need to know how to toast in Tagalog? Say "bottoms up" in Basque? "Down the hatch" in Hungarian? Cook teaches readers how to toast in 80 languages and includes drinking traditions, historical facts, and strange linguistic phenomena for each. Sweden, for instance, has a drinking song that taunts an uppity garden gnome, while Turkey brandishes words like Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınızcasına. And the most valuable liquor brand in the world isn't Johnny Walker or Hennessey, but Maotai—President Nixon's liquor of choice when he visited China.
Whether you're traveling the globe or the beer aisle, Cheers! will show you there's a world of fun waiting for you. So raise a glass and begin exploring!
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380 pages, Hardcover
First published April 6, 2021
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April 7, 2025Interesting, but as I read, I was cognizant that I was retaining very little. The book is less about drinking and cheers-ing and more about language itself. It could be fun to revisit a chapter before going to a particular country.
December 8, 2021
The photos were beautiful. Loved that locations where mostly not your typical. Yes, you had French, Irish and German, but you also had a taste at Basque, Galician, Kazakh, Tajik, Cebuano, Khmer, Tagalog, Afrikaans, Igbo, Xhosa and even a section from artlangs- Quenya, and Na'vi. Just enough description of the language for you to understand the significance of the toast and what is expected.
April 7, 2021
Love, love, love this book!
The pictures, interesting facts and stories make it fun and informative. I now know toasts for every type of cuisine!
Perfect for a hostess gift with a bottle of wine or for bridal showers with their wine glasses!
The pictures, interesting facts and stories make it fun and informative. I now know toasts for every type of cuisine!
Perfect for a hostess gift with a bottle of wine or for bridal showers with their wine glasses!
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